About Desktop icons

[Vishnukant]

Hello Friends,
I have Acer laptop & have Windows 7 ultimate installed on it. I have save some some PDF files on my desktop. However, instead of Adobe acrobat icon, there is a thumbnail image of the PDF file appearing on the desktop. The same is the case with MS Word & MS Excel files. However I want to know that how
should I get the program icon instead of thumbnail image there. Also again if I want the thumbnail image what should I do.

 

[PCTechie]

Windows desktop icon previews for PDFs - Microsoft Community

This link may help you.

 

[Vishnukant]

About desktop icons

Hello Everybody,
I followed your link but It didn't help me can anybody please directly give the solution
on this forum. I will be very thankful to you.

 

[indianacarnie]

Did you read the whole page? It linked to the answer here :Finally, a fix for the PDF preview bug in 64-bit Windows | Ed Bott

 

[nilank]

Hello Vishnu

That's a Windows 7 feature. Windows 7 reads the document and generates a little screenshot and puts it as the file thumbnail. You must have seen similar thumbnails on video/music files as well. This can be disabled in this way:

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[Vishnukant]

About reply

Hello Everybody,
Hello Nilank, I tried your suggestion and it works. So really thanks for that. However that will work universally and not individually. What will you suggest if I want some documents to be displayed as thumbnail images while other as program icons in a given location.